Behind The Mask - Softcover
In Bengal, a shift in the mindset of the educated elite towards governance in the last quarter of the nineteenth century indicated a new certainty about their self-identity as colonised subjects. Against this background, the present work investigates the class antagonism between the bhadralok
- the privileged, literate, and self-reflective social group, and the chhotolok - the underprivileged class, as they faced the colonial state and its different ideas of legality and sovereignty in colonial Bengal.
The book addresses a fundamental discursive discontinuity when the Bengali bhadralok sought to claim a new position of the aware and good legal subject. It also underlines the development of a new cultural language of morality and the rule of law.
- the privileged, literate, and self-reflective social group, and the chhotolok - the underprivileged class, as they faced the colonial state and its different ideas of legality and sovereignty in colonial Bengal.
The book addresses a fundamental discursive discontinuity when the Bengali bhadralok sought to claim a new position of the aware and good legal subject. It also underlines the development of a new cultural language of morality and the rule of law.
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"Part legal history, part intellectual and cultural history, this book makes an important contribution to understanding the rule of law in colonial Bengal."--Durba Ghosh, The Historian
Anindita Mukhopadhyay is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Hyderabad.
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"Part legal history, part intellectual and cultural history, this book makes an important contribution to understanding the rule of law in colonial Bengal."--Durba Ghosh, The Historian
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0198089678
- ISBN 13 9780198089674
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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